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 Volume 29, Number 1, January 2006 Current Section OfficersFrom the Chair |
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Chairperson Steven S. Smith Weidenbaum Center 300 Eliot Hall Washington University Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 Phone: (314) 935-5630 Email: smith@wustl.edu Secretary/Treasurer John D. Wilkerson Political Science Box 353530 111 Gowen Hall University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: (206) 543-8030 Email: jwilker@u.washington.edu Editor, LSS Newsletter Editor, "Extension of Remarks" Member-At-Large, 2005-2007
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Member-At-Large, 2005-2007 Kim L. Fridkin Department of Political Science Arizona State University Box 873902 Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Phone: (480) 965-4195 Email: fridkin@asu.edu Member-At-Large, 2005-2006 Diana Evans Yale University ISPS P. O. Box 208209 New Haven, CT 06520-8209 Phone: (860) 297-2546 Email: Diana.evans@trincoll.edu LSS
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Washington University, Saint Louis It is an honor and a great pleasure to assume the responsibilities of chairing the LSS, one of the most successful sections of the APSA. Our LSS Newsletter, awards, journal affiliation, and other activities promote scholarship in a field that is central to the discipline. John Wilkerson (University of Washington), our new secretary-treasurer, and I fully appreciate the great honor it is to be elected leaders of LSS. John and I thank Diana Evans and Frances Lee for their extraordinary efforts to educate us on LSS business. We inherited special relationships with Jerry Loewenberg and Mickie Wiegand at Legislative Studies Quarterly, Ron Peters, Sean Kelly, and LaDonna Sullivan at our LSS Newsletter, and Robert Kelly at our listserve. We also thank those colleagues who have agreed to serve on the executive committee (Kim Fridkin, Charles Stewart, and Eric Schickler) and many others who serve on our awards committees. Wendy Schiller, who will chair our 2006 program, deserves thanks in advance. An issue that we must keep in mind over the next few years is the effect of our new dues structure for LSS membership. LSS membership dropped from 614 to 538 in the last six months of 2005. The increase in annual dues from $10 to $30 to incorporate an LSQ subscription appears to have reduced membership renewals in the cycle of the 2005 annual meeting, the first full cycle for the new arrangement. This is a serious concern because of the implications for funding our newsletter and awards. We are working with APSA staff on a special appeal to people who have dropped their membership. We are monitoring the situation. |
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